Manager, Incident Response Analyst
Dallas, TX

Job Description

Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Diversity Inc. and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.

KPMG is currently seeking a Manager, Security Monitoring to join our Digital Business Transformation organization. This opportunity is open to internal candidates from all KPMG US locations and external candidates interested in being based in one of the cities listed within this posting.

Responsibilities:

* Monitor and respond to detected threats and potential vulnerabilities received by alert or proactively hunted
* Serve as a subject matter professional for security monitoring, incident response triaging, and incident response related tools
* Engage in our use case development lifecycle to improve alert fidelity and detection capabilities
* Develop incident response procedures for new use cases to ensure best practices are consistently followed
* Drive automation and orchestration to reduce incident resolution time and improve response processes
* Provide insight regarding plausible threats and determine the risk they pose to the organization

Qualifications:

* Minimum five years of Security monitoring experience and incident response activities; preferably within a professional services firm or similar environment, experience with IT process definition and / or improvement.
* Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
* Understanding of network and system intrusion and detection methods, examples of related technologies include Splunk,, SOC, Next Generation Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), Security information and event management (SIEM), hacking tools techniques and procedures
* Experience with malware analysis, endpoint lateral movement detection methodologies and host forensic tools
* Understanding of network protocol analysis, public key infrastructure, SSL, Microsoft Windows and Active Directory, Linux, open source software, scripting, SQL, and software programming
* US Citizenship is required

KPMG LLP (the U.S. member firm of KPMG International) offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. KPMG is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. KPMG complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The attached link contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws. No phone calls or agencies please.